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Value Before the verb
Language:
Belizean Creole
Parameter:
Position of standard negation
References
Escure 1983
Examples
Yu
neva
ivn̩ memba dat if a
neva
kum ya kum tɛl yu.
Yu
2sg
neva
ant
.
neg
ivn̩
even
memba
remember
dat
that
if
if
a
1sg
neva
ant
.
neg
kum
come
ya
here
kum
come
tɛl
tell
yu.
2sg
You would not even have remembered if I had not come to tell you.
See
Escure 1992
Yu
no
waak da ridj de.
Yu
2sg
no
neg
waak
walk
da
that
ridj
ridge
de.
there
You don't walk along that ridge.
See
Escure 1983
: 36
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